Trait
Borderline personality disorder
A personality disorder characterized by impulsive behavior and unpredictable, capricious mood. Affected individuals show a tendency to have outbursts of emotion and an inability to control these behavioral explosions. They generally experience an intense fear of abandonment or instability and also struggle with feelings of emptiness.
Summary
- Also called
- BPD, Emotionally unstable personality disorder, EUPD
- Body system
- Abnormality of the nervous system
Reference genomeGRCh38hg38
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Changes in these genes cause rare conditions in which Borderline personality disorder is seen. Most people with this trait have none of those conditions, and a gene on this list says nothing about anyone's own genome.
How often is among people with one of the gene's conditions, the most often across them, as the Human Phenotype Ontology records it. These pages describe traits and the research behind them; they are not a diagnosis, and a doctor or genetic counsellor is the person to ask about symptoms.
Broader traits
Where this comes from
- The Human Phenotype Ontology, release 2026-09-01: the trait, its names, its definition and the genes linked to it. Find out more at hpo.jax.org.
- Data release 2026.10.16-c6eea6bf.
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